Dinh Trieu is still number 1
Up to this point, despite being on the list of the Vietnamese team that won the AFF Cup 2024, goalkeeper Tran Trung Kien has yet to play for coach Kim Sang-sik's team. Tran Trung Kien is also the only player on the Vietnamese team who did not play a single minute at the recent Southeast Asian Football Championship.
Goalkeeper Dinh Trieu is in very good form.
Even though goalkeeper Nguyen Filip is not on the list of the Vietnamese team preparing for the FIFA Days matches in March (a friendly match with Cambodia on March 19 and a qualifying match for the 2027 Asian Cup against Laos on March 25), Tran Trung Kien still has to compete with veteran goalkeeper Nguyen Dinh Trieu.
The best goalkeeper of the AFF Cup 2024 is in very good form. In the last 3 consecutive rounds of the V-League 2024-2025, including rounds 14, 15 and 16, goalkeeper Dinh Trieu's Hai Phong Football Club all won and Dinh Trieu himself always played excellently in these matches. For players playing in the goalkeeper position, the coaches need stability most from them, and goalkeeper Dinh Trieu is having that stability.
It is not difficult to imagine that Dinh Trieu will still be the team's number 1 choice in the match of the third qualifying round of the 2027 Asian Cup, against the Laos team on March 25. The hope of young goalkeeper Tran Trung Kien to play may only lie in the friendly match against Cambodia on March 19. Since this is a friendly match, coach Kim Sang-sik will have some experiments. However, whether the Korean coach will experiment with the goalkeeper position or not is another matter, and if he does experiment with the goalkeeper position, will Mr. Kim experiment with Tran Trung Kien or not is still a question mark?
Young goalkeeper Nguyen Van Viet is also very excellent.
In the current Vietnam national team, there is another young goalkeeper, Nguyen Van Viet. If talking about the preparation for the future of the Vietnam national team, goalkeeper Van Viet also has a promising future. Van Viet is only 23 years old this year, he is only 1 year older than Tran Trung Kien, but Van Viet's experience in V-League is much richer. The SLNA club goalkeeper has had his 3rd season playing regularly in V-League, while Trung Kien has only had his first season appearing in this playground.
Tran Trung Kien still needs to learn a lot from his seniors.
What is noteworthy about Van Viet is that, regardless of SLNA's performance, this goalkeeper always plays consistently. He has never been considered one of the reasons why the Nghe An team is struggling at the bottom of the rankings. On the contrary, Nguyen Van Viet's continuous saves have helped SLNA significantly reduce the number of goals conceded by this team since the beginning of V-League 2024-2025.
Tran Trung Kien may be the number 1 choice of the U.22 Vietnam team heading to the 33rd SEA Games this year, but the national team is completely different, the level of the national team is much higher than the U.22 team. Therefore, the young goalkeeper of HAGL Club needs to be extremely patient. He still needs to practice and learn a lot from his seniors. As long as Tran Trung Kien is patient and maintains his best qualities, the opportunity will come to this goalkeeper, even if that opportunity may not appear immediately in the March training session of the Vietnam team!
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/dinh-trieu-qua-hay-thu-mon-cao-hon-tay-lieu-duoc-bat-chinh-o-doi-tuyen-viet-nam-185250310121655544.htm
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